Hong Kong Professors Make Global Impact in Digital Wellness and Molecular Bonding

Why It Matters

Their combined social-science and chemistry advances address urgent business and societal needs—improving digital platform safety and organizational performance while reducing resource intensity in chemical processing—which can lower costs, speed innovation and strengthen Hong Kong’s competitiveness in global R&D.

Summary

Two Hong Kong Baptist University professors describe interdisciplinary research tackling distinct global challenges: Christy Gerun focuses on digital wellness—studying cyberbullying, harassment in virtual environments and organizational cyber-slacking—to design safer, more accountable online platforms and promote responsible digital citizenship. Jing Wang works in synthetic chemistry to develop more efficient, selective and greener bond-formation methods that can accelerate drug development and scale across medicine, agriculture and materials science. Both emphasize mentorship and female leadership to build Hong Kong’s capacity as a hub for sustainable, world-class science and to amplify the international impact of their work.

Original Description

In partnership with: HKBU

Academics at Hong Kong Baptist University are pursuing ideas with relevance far beyond the city. Professors Christy Cheung and Wang Jun reveal how their research addresses real-world problems involving digital spaces and molecular design.

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